PENNSYLVANIA - It's a message being drummed into the heads of homeowners everywhere: Swap out those incandescent lights with longer-lasting compact fluorescent bulbs and cut your electric use. ...more

May 18, 2008

You may have seen the public service commercial. A woman brings her young daughter out to the car and straps her into a car seat. The announcer reminds us that 37,000 Americans are killed every year in automobile accidents, which made me think it was sponsored by the National Safety Council or a seat-belt advocacy group. ...more

May 18, 2008

Struggling with record diesel prices, the trucking industry's main trade group introduced a plan Thursday to reduce fuel consumption and emissions over the next decade mainly by having its members slow down. ...more

May 9, 2008

CARROLLWOOD Despite a rough housing market, developers for Ravinia Luxury Courtyard Villas say their product meets the right niche to do well. ...more

May 7, 2008

Here's a better solution for people stockpiling food supplies because they fear a shortage: Eat less. ...more

May 6, 2008

Heavily armed federal police swarmed an Amazon town and seized more than 500 truckloads of illegally cut hardwood that were confiscated but abandoned last week when rioting residents and loggers drove out environmental authorities. ...more

February 24, 2008

Florida is fighting for states' rights - as well as clean air - by joining the lawsuit filed by California against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. ...more

February 23, 2008

It's difficult to think of a more environmentally destructive practice than mountaintop mining - exploding the peaks of Appalachian Mountains to get to the coal beneath. ...more

February 18, 2008

How many trailers are involved? The Federal Emergency Management Agency says 25,162 trailers are occupied in Louisiana, 10,362 in Mississippi. The trailers were made by several companies. Some were made specially for FEMA. ...more

February 15, 2008

A federal appeals court said Friday the Bush administration ignored the law when it imposed less stringent requirements on power plants to reduce mercury pollution, which scientists fear could cause neurological problems in 60,000 newborns a year. ...more

February 9, 2008